Minn. Stat. § 62J.0417: PAYMENT MECHANISMS IN RURAL HEALTH CARE.

(a) The commissioner shall develop a plan to assess readiness of rural communities and rural health care providers to adopt value-based, global budgeting or alternative payment systems and recommend steps needed to implement them. The commissioner may use the development of case studies and modeling of alternate payment systems to demonstrate value-based payment systems that ensure a baseline level of essential community or regional health services and address population health needs.

(b) The commissioner shall develop recommendations for pilot projects with the aim of ensuring financial viability of rural health care entities in the context of spending growth targets. The commissioner shall include the plan, recommendations, and related findings in the reports required under section 62J.312, subdivision 3.